Posted on 02/17/2015 6:46:13 AM PST by Rusty0604
MOSCOW, (Sputnik) – Russia is ready to closely cooperate with Egypt in the fight against terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a letter to his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Sisi Monday.
The Russian leader offered his condolences over the recent execution of 21 Egyptian Christian Copts by Islamic State (IS) militants. The video of the beheading was published Sunday.
“The president of Russia reiterated that the Russian side is ready for closest cooperation possible in the fight against all aspects of the terrorism threat,” the Kremlin press service said in a statement
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The Russkies will school Bay Boo Obama on how to get s**t done.
Ironic that a former KGB guy is doing more to defend Christianity than a U.S. President....
Well Egypt can’t count on us.
Russia I see used the word : Christian”.
ISIS vs The Russians. Get out the popcorn.
What are the Russians going to do? Build a massive mosque (Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque) like they did in Chechnya or install sharia law? Russia’s muslim population is about 12%. In 2030 its going to be about 15%. Within a few years, muslims will make up half the conscripts in the Russian army.
And Putin is taking advantage of that.
The Russians see an opportunity to get back in the good graces of the Middle East. The USA is about to get kicked out.
More sickening than ironic.
Russia has been tacitly, even openly, supporting Bashar al-Assad all along, and has made it clear the ISIS movement is definitely a terrorist organization.
If the Current Occupant will not step up and take effective steps to eradicate (not contain) ISIS, then Russia is more than willing to step into the breach, and thus isolate and marginalize the territory once known as “the United States of America”.
Russia then becomes the liberator that frees the world of the threat of militant Islamic Jihadist terrorism. After all, they kicked the Nazis out of their position some seventy years ago, and they are practiced in the art of eliminating existential threats. Sometimes they fail, considering Afghanistan, but they have never forgotten who the REAL enemy is.
The Muslims (Tartars) have been there since the 8th century. I believe there are only 5 mosques in Russia. We have more churches in our little Town.
Syria is important to Russia because Qatar wants to have a pipeline headed in that direction and Russia doesn’t. Obama doesn’t want his deal with Iran messed up because of Syria so he just keeps acting like he wants to deal with Assad but he doesn’t really. He is probably glad ISIS took the heat off of him for that.
Thanks for the link.
Out of date article but there is a hell of a lot more than “5 mosques in Russia” proper. In the muslim territories controlled by russia (such as Chechnya) there are numerous mosques.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mosques_in_Russia
You're right on this ...
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